[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

Skip Montanaro skip@manatee.mojam.com
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 07:00:31 -0600


Bug/Patch Summary
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310 open / 3027 total bugs (-12)
99 open / 1768 total patches (no change)

New Bugs
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list slice ass ignores subtypes of list (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633152
cgi.py drops commandline arguments (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633504
HeaderParseError: no header value (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633550
Nested class __name__ (2002-11-05)
	http://python.org/sf/633930
pdb quit breakage (2002-11-05)
	http://python.org/sf/634116
RFC 2112 in email package (2002-11-06)
	http://python.org/sf/634412
Don't define _XOPEN_SOURCE on OpenBSD (2002-11-07)
	http://python.org/sf/635034
int(1e200) should return long (2002-11-07)
	http://python.org/sf/635115
re.sub() coerces u'' to '' (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635398
urllib.urlretrieve() with ftp error  (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635453
remove debug prints from macmain.c (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635570
Misleading description of \w in regexs (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635595
cStringIO().write TypeError (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635814
2.2.2 build on Solaris (2002-11-09)
	http://python.org/sf/635929
No error "not all arguments converted" (2002-11-09)
	http://python.org/sf/635969

New Patches
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Problem at the end of misformed mailbox (2002-11-03)
	http://python.org/sf/632934
_getdefaultlocale for OS X (2002-11-03)
	http://python.org/sf/632973
Patch for sre bug 610299 (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633359
Plural forms support for gettext (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633547
Cleanup of test_strptime.py (2002-11-04)
	http://python.org/sf/633633
Better inspect.BlockFinder fixes bug (2002-11-06)
	http://python.org/sf/634557
general corrections to 2.2.2 refman, p.1 (2002-11-07)
	http://python.org/sf/634866
os.tempnam behavior in Windows (2002-11-08)
	http://python.org/sf/635656
make some type attrs writable (2002-11-09)
	http://python.org/sf/635933
Filter unicode into unicode (2002-11-09)
	http://python.org/sf/636005
Typo in PEP249 (2002-11-10)
	http://python.org/sf/636159

Closed Bugs
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Ugly traceback for DistutilsPlatformError (2001-02-20)
	http://python.org/sf/233259
g++ must be called for c++ extensions (2001-04-03)
	http://python.org/sf/413582
non-greedy regexp duplicating match bug (2001-06-01)
	http://python.org/sf/429357
freeze: global symbols not exported (2001-06-25)
	http://python.org/sf/436131
distutils cannot link C++ code with GCC (2001-08-21)
	http://python.org/sf/454030
always return 0 command status (2001-09-07)
	http://python.org/sf/459705
ability to specify a 'verify' script (2001-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/466200
sre bug with nested groups (2001-10-12)
	http://python.org/sf/470582
remember to sync trees (2002-03-25)
	http://python.org/sf/534669
installation atop 2.2 fails (2002-04-12)
	http://python.org/sf/543244
cgitb variable dumps a little flaky (2002-04-26)
	http://python.org/sf/549038
unknown locale de_DE@euro on Suse 8.0 Linux (2002-05-10)
	http://python.org/sf/554676
FixTk.py logic wrong (2002-06-04)
	http://python.org/sf/564729
bdist_rpm and the changelog option (2002-06-18)
	http://python.org/sf/570655
Provoking infinite scanner loops (2002-07-13)
	http://python.org/sf/581080
win32 build_ext problem (2002-09-24)
	http://python.org/sf/614051
fpectl module broken on Linux (2002-09-24)
	http://python.org/sf/614060
tempfile crashes (2002-10-15)
	http://python.org/sf/623464
missing names in telnetlib.py (2002-10-19)
	http://python.org/sf/625823
curses library not found during make (2002-10-23)
	http://python.org/sf/627864
Set constructor fails with NameError (2002-10-24)
	http://python.org/sf/628246
bdist_rpm target breaks with rpm 4.1 (2002-10-28)
	http://python.org/sf/630195
Mac OS 10 configure problem (2002-10-30)
	http://python.org/sf/631247
Tkinter (?) refct (?) bug (2002-11-01)
	http://python.org/sf/632323
Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc (2002-11-03)
	http://python.org/sf/632864

Closed Patches
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Fix for sre bug 470582 (2002-03-08)
	http://python.org/sf/527371
ConfigParser: optional section header (2002-04-26)
	http://python.org/sf/549037
LDFLAGS support for build_ext.py (2002-07-30)
	http://python.org/sf/588809
rm email package dependency on rfc822.py (2002-09-23)
	http://python.org/sf/613434
getframe hook (Psyco #1) (2002-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/617309
Tiny profiling info (Psyco #2) (2002-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/617311
debugger-controlled jumps (Psyco #3) (2002-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/617312
gzip.py and files > 2G (2002-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/618135
telnetlib.py: don't block on IAC and enhancement (2002-10-29)
	http://python.org/sf/630829
Exceptions raised by line trace function (2002-10-30)
	http://python.org/sf/631276
New pdb command "pp" (2002-10-31)
	http://python.org/sf/631678